TWENTY-FIVE YEARS! How the hell did I manage to get to a quarter century? And with nearly eight hundred and fifty titles produced so far, there’s been a ton of above/ground press activity over the past year, including some thirty chapbooks (so far) produced in 2017 alone (including titles by rob mclennan, Amanda Earl, Kristina [ … ]

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS! How the hell did I manage to get to a quarter century? And with nearly eight hundred and fifty titles produced so far, there’s been a ton of above/ground press activity over the past year, including some thirty chapbooks produced in 2017 alone (including titles by rob mclennan, Amanda Earl, Kristina Drake, Stephanie [ … ]

I awake myself to sentences: common, and unmoved. A way of remembering. Outside is eleven below. A dusty sweep of snow crosses our icy driveway. My daughter is in New York City, celebrating. The baby is asleep. The poem is the distance between early [ … ]

Today, I sat perched atop a cold bench, my feet on the seat, my bum on the narrow back, surrounded by deep snow reflecting the whitest light.
On the frozen lake, fishermen dipped their rods, a pickup truck drove along the track across the bay, and the wind was still.

The fourteenth issue of Touch the Donkey (a small poetry journal) is still available,
with new work by David James Miller, Jonathan Ball, Cody-Rose Clevidence, mwpm,
Andrew McEwan and Brynne Rebele-Henry.

many gendered mothers is a project on literary influence featuring short essays by writers (of any/all genders) on the women, femme, trans, and non-binary writers who have influenced them, as a direct or indirect literary forebear.

This project is directly inspired by the American website Literary Mothers, created by editor Nadxieli Nieto and managing editor [ … ]